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Wurmfeld's Oyster: Andrea Merkx is a hoot as usual and I liked her/him paired with Hank the waiter. Loved the "gorgeous extinct creatures" lot!

The ending kind of lost me. They run happily out of the room to go extinct? That's the point?

The poster photo isn't part of the film or did I miss something? I know the photo is a takeoff of the American Gothic painting but both are sex role stereotyped for a hermaphrodite analogy.

The actors are kind of androgynous. You aren't wondering which is biologically which gender. They are not clearly hermaphrodite if they are supposed to be like the oysters in that respect.

The oysters on the subway platform aren't hermaphrodite either. This one looks female. The other looks male. So is that what you are saying, that hermaphrodites don't get to be hermaphrodites any more?

Or do they happily run out of the room to become something different?

Saw Whole Foods listed in the credits. Did they provide the oysters or the restaurant? Where were the oysters from?

The film didn't lose my attention.

Animated, paranoid stoners and drug enforcement officials discuss/spy/rat on each other while doing a disabling drug called D. It isn't flat animation though. Like an animated paint-by-number the faces are depicted in about eight shades and tones of color and shadow that all shift with facial movements.

Adventurous animation with an adult theme. Sounds good. Animated Japanese cartoon sex turns me on more than filmed sex. Maybe the artistic bent. Maybe that it isn't quite real. Maybe the focus on essentials and editing out of the rest. So watching animated, driving Winona Ryder lure a guy home for drugs was great and watching the scene twist into something else was great too.

Non-addicted life seems intolerably boring. "OK. Let's eat," is the reward for listening to a speech that is comprehensible only in fragments. "Would anyone like some popcorn" is the effort to cheer up family life.

I liked the visual of the suburban drug house morphing into the comfortable home of a nice family that actually was the lead drug addict's former family. Drugged perception seems heightened. His roommates might be more interesting companions than his family had been so why the regret about his choices?

A favorite scene came back to me when I was expecting to be reprimanded at work. It was the one in which the Angel of Death stands at the foot of a bed reading the sins of a suicidal man as he prepares to die. The angel reads on and on. The list seems endless.

Not only are the characters high on who knows what drug it also seems like the whole production crew was high with heightened details and drug perception.

So I like animation. I like adult themes. I like cop movies. I like a-typical characters that look like people who roam the world. I like heightened perception. The whole thing was successfully, on all levels, about being stoned but I wasn't.